Dominion Valley Country Club has applied to Prince William County to expand the 2,850-home development to a maximum of 3,270 homes.
Toll Brothers, the developer, has asked to rezone and absorb the Mill Park, Squire and Silver Lake properties between Route 15, Waterfall Road and Antioch Road into the country club.
Twelve homes that can be built without interference from the county are planned on the 317-acre Silver Lake property, said Fran Burnszynski, with Prince William County Planning. Over 150 acres of the property, including the lake, would be turned over to the Prince William County Park Authority.
If approved by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors on June 6, 180 homes are planned on the 102 acres of Mill Park and 26 acres of the Squire property, Burnszynski said.
“The remainder of the 420 homes would be derived from existing land bays that haven’t been subdivided yet” within the country club, he said.
Toll Brothers has agreed to give several million dollars for park improvements and two new school sites within the development, said Planning Commission Vice Chair Martha Hendley, a Gainesville representative.
“It accelerates improvements from Route 15 from Route 66 to Route 234,” she said.
The schools and new homes would only be accessible from Route 15 and inside the country club, Hendley said. The park would be accessible from Antioch Road.
“I’m not ecstatic about adding 400 additional homes,” said Prince William County Supervisor John Stirrup, R-Gainesville, but he noted that increasing the amount of homes for older residents cuts down on vehicle trips and overloading the school system.
“I looked at it andsaid, ‘To try to deliver the park improvements, the recreation improvements and two school sites now in 2006 rather than leave it to our own devices … we’d be years away from providing these constituent services,’ ” Stirrup said.
“I think it is essentially one of those choices that the board is presented with at a more frequent interval than in the past,” said Sean Connaughton, Prince William Board of County Supervisors chair. “Are the potential infrastructure improvements worth the houses and the impacts they have?”
Toll Brothers Proposed Proffers
» Water quality monitoring: $9,600
» Fire and rescue: $316,260
» Housing: $105,000
» Libraries: $231,420
» Parks and open space: $8,250,000
» Schools: $2,129,952
» Transportation: $4,300,000
» Total: $15,342,232
